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  1. Shipmaster Sane

    Culture The Question of Enforcing Cultural Norms

    "No society ever has functioned!" "All states are degenerative!" Maintaining the delicate relationship between margin and center, allowed exception and norm, a relationship based on *limited* pressure, is what a society *is*. That is a *description* of the functioning of a society that is not...
  2. Shipmaster Sane

    Culture The Question of Enforcing Cultural Norms

    Again with the smoothbrain "I dont understand scale, having any pressure in the spaceship is like having infinity pressure in the spaceship" argument that I already addressed. Refusing to have sex with someone is both pressure and a hostile judgement, by the way, this is objective fact...
  3. Shipmaster Sane

    Culture The Question of Enforcing Cultural Norms

    Of course it's the only fucking way, it's in the fucking name. En FORCE. You cannot enforce, without force. You cannot have a norm that does not by it's very existence exert pressure on things outside the norm. Your lukewarm kindergarden comparisons to oppressive entities are about as relevant...
  4. Shipmaster Sane

    Culture The Question of Enforcing Cultural Norms

    No shit they aren't leaving people alone, they were never going to. Being left alone was never an option. The idea that if you leave others alone no petty tyrant will ever find the time to victimize you is completely insane. The "I just wanna grill" mentality is a suicidal, childish delusion...
  5. Shipmaster Sane

    Culture The Question of Enforcing Cultural Norms

    Taking a "to each there own" attitude towards degenerate behavior is what got us into this cultural death spiral to begin with. They have to be confronted and mocked regularly, or they'll bide their time and chisel away at you until they feel confident enough to attack you openly.
  6. Shipmaster Sane

    Culture The Question of Enforcing Cultural Norms

    Linkara liked getting pegged by a transvestite.
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